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Re: Gardening: Lessons Learned 

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Decomposed > I've just put ten into pots and they're living on my deck. In 60 or 70 days, I should have one or two cherry saplings.


I have a feeling rabbits like to eat baby cherry trees.
I had to make a hardware cloth barrier to put around
GirlFriends baby cherry trees to keep the varmints from
eating them.

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Re: Gardening: Lessons Learned
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Wed, 05 Aug 20 11:34 PM 		Msg. 04289 of 60014

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Re: “Actually, August is only just beginning. You have time for many more lessons in August.”I should have just said that it cost me most of another month. Then I wouldn't have 'pulled a Biden'!Re: “Seriously, I am surprised that you are planting hybrid varieties. In your situation...”You're quite right. I *do* have heirloom varieties. In fact, I've got something called "Survival Essentials" from "Survival-Essentials.com" with 145 varieties of heirloom vegetable seeds. The kit was packed for the 2018 gardening year. It says that, if properly stored, it lasts up to six years. I think that's probably true, but only for SOME of the seeds. It's definitely not true for all of them. I found, for instance, that none of the eggplant germinated. In other cases, the germination rate on seeds I planted was really low. Then there were still other cases where the lack of thorough documentation made it impossible to know whether I had enough time to harvest, given the short New Hampshire growing season.

In all three cases, store-bought seeds were a good option. My heirloom lettuce, for instance, didn't germinate. I didn't know whether it was because the seeds were bad or the weather was too warm. So I bought some non-heirloom seeds and did Round #2 indoors, including both heirloom seeds AND store-bought seeds. I found that in my second attempt, the heirloom seeds DID germinate but rarely. One out of five sprouted. Next year will probably be worse.

On the other hand, every one of the heirloom tomato seeds grew.

So, it's like that. Until I have the art of harvesting heirloom plants for seed so that my seeds are reliably viable, I'll probably continue buying Burpee (overpriced) and Ferry Morse seeds. There will be a couple of more years of that, I'm sure.

On a different but related subject, I'm currently trying to grow my own cherry trees - out of pits from store-bought cherries! It'll be cool if it works since cherry tree saplings are pricey. I've watched a number of videos and it looks pretty easy. The main thing folks don't know is that you have to crack the pits, let the nut begin developing a root in the refrigerator, then plant the nut in a pot.

I've just put ten into pots and they're living on my deck. In 60 or 70 days, I should have one or two cherry saplings. That's the theory, anyway. The majority fail, but there's no reason I couldn't do a hundred next year. Time will tell how it goes.

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